Hints and tips:
...— Richard II Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope, Penguin Books, £5.99 I’m reading Barchester Towers. It may not fit the mood of the time but I’m finding it superlative entertainment....
...Once you get tired of eavesdropping, walk up the road to an Afghan BYOB restaurant called Ariana II for a kebab....
...James Hogg, author of the classic novel of twisted religion The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, asked John Murray II to find him a wife; Byron asked him to collect from the London...
...Since the crisis, most European countries have introduced bank-specific taxes and laws, such as the bonus cap and the Mifid II investor-protection rules, which do not apply in the US....
...It sits in a domaine national, a state-owned walled estate that everyone I meet — the hoteliers, the game wardens, the guides, even the police chief — tells me is the size of Paris, the boundary the length...
...After that, Dubois was invited to design his first superyacht, the 37m sloop Aquel II, which was built in New Zealand. A long career in yacht design followed....
...Like North America’s national park system, which inspired Tsar Nicholas II, Russia’s first state protected areas are now in their centennial year....
...II. Desperately heretical “Go have a look!” my editor had enthused. “An American explores, on the eve of Brexit! De Tocqueville in reverse! It’ll be great!”...
...The spokesperson said: “Warden staff are offered voluntary opportunities to receive training and develop skills to lead guided tours for visitors as part of their working day and to administer first aid,...
...John Vickers, warden, All Souls College, Oxford The OBR’s central estimate of GDP growth slowing to 1.4% in 2017 looks as good as any. Lots of uncertainty around it....
...“Some [local properties] still house members of Dungeness’s four historic fishing families, who still work from boats off the headland,” says Owen Leyshon, warden of Dungeness National Nature Reserve....
...That disdain, plus Krasner’s role as Pollock’s long-suffering wife and warden, conspired to keep her out of the Ab-Ex canon....
...MacMillan, warden of St Antony’s College, Oxford university, is the author of Peacemakers (2002), a prizewinning history of the 1919 Paris peace conference, and of Seize the Hour: When Nixon Met Mao (2006...
...Four Gulf-based British businessmen were honoured in Queen Elizabeth II’s new year’s list....
...closed, with all passengers forced to follow long, narrow, comically-contrived routes around the station, penned in with barriers, police and about a thousand blokes dressed up as newly-minted transport wardens...
...“If I accepted all the invitations I’m getting, I’d turn into Falstaff II,” said Lord Sutherland....
...They are also joined by the red-robed Antony Bunsee in a variety of minor roles as assorted castellans and wardens, which coalesce into a single figure designated in the cast list as “the Keeper”, but who...
...Grant Macdonald, silversmith; newly elected Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths’ Company, City of London, where the major exhibition, “Treasures of the English Church” opens on May 30 My two collecting passions...
...You have to go to Versailles, Richardson says, where the statues “direct you like traffic wardens through the garden”, to sense how crowded these exclusive spaces would have been....
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